A Moonbeam Children's Book Awards winner. Suggested for readers ages 10 to 13. Sara is thirteen and in the northern Michigan woods at Lakewood Dance Camp where she is excited, scared, and challenged by class auditions, rehearsals, and performances of authentic ballets. She just HAS to win one of the three scholarships for the next summer so she can continue her training or there's no chance of returning. She is determined to be a REAL dancer in a REAL company some day. But how can she look good enough to win a scholarship when she has to learn new forms of dance, try to figure out what Madame...

Caraboose is a funny creature who takes over for the tooth fairies when they go on vacation: "They pack up their bags and fly straight to Cancun or Aruba or Brussels or even the moon." Caraboose says: "You have to believe in the fairy tooth moose while shaking and wiggling your tooth 'til it's loose, then carry it home in your pocket from school, keep it in there while watching TV as a rule." He has lots of other advice, and promises to give the teeth to the fairies for their brew so the magic "will float back to you." Great for parents, teachers, and librarians to read to very young readers...

Sara is back at Lakewood Dance Camp and is determined to win a summer scholarship to the New York City Ballet school. But Robin wants it, too And things are different this year: there's a boys dance camp across the lake, new cabin mates, new teachers, and Erin isn't there. Sara is a dynamite competitor with a true passion for ballet, but that might not be enough to get her the scholarship. Everything seems to depend on performing a difficult Balanchine ballet in pointe shoes for the Student Concert. Patrick and Jackson from the boys' side complicate things, and she's stuck in a folk dance...